I plan to keep doing this work; to push the boundaries of visual storytelling and finding new ways to make complex information clear, engaging, and human.
If your organization is expanding or investing in visual storytelling, cartography, or graphics, I would love to chat about opportunities.
Who all is affected by this data and in what ways?
How can your work do harm? (Note: not if - assume there's risks of harm, just like with healthcare - what can go awry?)
What else is going on in the broader context with this data set? What's not in the data set (and why)?
Can you collaborate with someone of the community or seek their (paid) counsel?
Is there anyone left to speak for those within the data set? If not, who is responsible for keeping the memory alive?
Can someone from the community do this or have they done it? Can you amplify?
What relationship do you have (if any) to the community/(ies) in question?
Can you engage in a meaningful conversation with that community? If so, what are their attitudes about the data? What message(s) do they want shared and who is allowed to share in what ways?
Can you pause and listen?
It may have been 6 years ago, but still a hard day...
Be gentle with folks in your life.
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I'll be taking this and you should too!
Yup, finally took the time to fix some things on my website. Now my Hope datavisualization is to be seen again.
It is a personal project on the people who gave me #hope throughout my life, each their own galaxy in my universe 🌌
#dataviz #illustration
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And lately coincides with active phases of child care and peak growth periods at work. And leaves you wholly expended afterwards with fewer peer supports. And most elder care is a patchwork that requires extensive pay to play or charity that covers far too little.
In a linguistics class I learned when everyone is used to a certain level of violence in words (ex, hate speech being fully allowed), it easily moves to violence because that taboo is lost.
Ultimately, false confidence was rewarded every time. Culturally, that's what gets rewarded here too.
My earliest education felt so high stakes. Even when I went back later, cost played a role in it being high stakes.
There also wasn't enough time for dialogue, to even refine where I didn't know, and to clarify between what I did and didn't know.
That these programs exist excites me. Someday, I'll find one close enough. You should definitely take a look.
Chances are high, he probably lamented the data lag a lot. It may have been in smaller circles, but my guess is they wanted to preserve his optimism about the numbers getting better.
For hard analytical types, this may not feel like a faithful rendering, but goal is spirit of the message.
If I recall correctly, this book and his biography were originally one book and in translation to English were split.
As someone who has ghost-written for someone before, you're re-using things they've said prior, notes, and established history.
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
Anecdotally, it looks like certain voices are being suppressed. I'm personally wondering if we saw the last of the democratic digital sphere.
Real (living) people grow. They piss you off, challenge you, and ideally respond to your social signals in a reasonable way.
AI definitely does not.
The worst part - these technologies can alter memory, which is malleable at recall. You can lose what you thought you had.
Think of a phone call you had recently. Can you imagine how that person moved during the call?
Chances are, yes. Not only that, you're probably pretty accurate too.
Video and audio feel real. They're designed to be immersive.
The problem with replicas is someone else controls them.
As someone who has spent far too much time grieving and who works in tech, I'm going to level with you:
The human brain isn't equipped to handle this.
Grief means learning that person is gone.
Digital interaction feels real to us.
This sends mixed signals. Which one wins?
WIP PowerPoint slide with Name the values as the title, and the question, what really drives these values. Nick Sousanis is cited and his comic sits to the right
With your permission, I'd like to use it as an example in my ethics class, particularly around goals / intent.
Today's distraction brought to you by, well, distraction...
You think the task is simple enough, until self-service everything wins the day.
If you need a distraction, enjoy. It'll make me feel less bad about mine.
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Satire, art, humor, beauty, pleasure, creativity.
These are not luxuries, they are necessities.
We need all of these things to keep bringing light and hope to the world, in a dark time.
I'll also add it reduces the opportunities for any life-saving/changing acts of compassion.
I paid cash for my first degree because I couldn't navigate financial aid. Many times, I ate one meal a day.
Sometimes, someone's compassion saved me that day.
This weekend, I spent time learning to breathe with my body - to open wide and to use my arms, hands, and breath in alignment.
From a taekwondo form.
People hear I do martial arts and focus mostly on defensive abilities. But there's more.
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Hope you get answers soon. Unsolved health mysteries are not fun.
And it's 11 months, but really, time is malleable as all get out anymore.
The general message - whether intended or not - is that grief should stay in its bedroom with the curtains drawn.
But sunlight helps.
So does a kind hand.
Spread kindness today. You never know who might need it. 💖
This goes extra if you're generally labeled "difficult to consume" for whatever reason.
Grumpy cats sit in their grief and can seem hard to comfort. I promise, the fur is still soft.
Grief is unattractive to the masses. You'd best make a comedy skit, a movie, or maybe a book out of it. But to be a grieving human is to be somewhat untouchable.
Your grief is dirty, messy, and too heavy a cloud for others to touch.
